Epidemiologist - Remote from the USA, contract
Alphanumeric is hiring an EPIDEMIOLOGIST to work with our client of 20 years committed to improving lives through medical and pharmaceutical advancements.
- The main field of study for this Epidemiologist is Oncology.
- Improve disease understanding relevant to drug development: incidence, prevalence, risk factors, natural history course, treatment patterns, comorbidities, co-medications, outcome measures, phenotypes, biomarkers, unmet needs, and their variations across domains such as demographics and geographies.
- Support clinical trial design, in particular identification of the target population, protocol development, patient recruitment and patient medical history data ascertainment.
- Contribute to medication safety evaluation: provide background event rates, synthesize existing evidence including through meta-analyses, identify high-risk populations.
- Support post-marketing surveillance activities: risk evaluation mitigation strategies, epidemiology studies for signal detection and inference, post-authorization studies of treatment benefit and risk.
- Critically appraise existing epidemiology evidence and create new evidence through delivery of specific research plans/protocols and analysis of healthcare databases.
- Requirements:
- 5 years or more in Epidemiology in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience in an academic or government setting.
- Significant experience applying epidemiologic methods to study a variety of questions in support of medicine development (safety, effectiveness, natural history of disease)
- Demonstrable experience leading pharmaco-epidemiologic research programs in a drug development environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate scientific evidence to peers and at scientific meetings.
- PHD required in epidemiology
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